Tuesday, March 11, 2014 7:59:30 PM
Union thugs? Wait 'til you see the Kochs
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.. 3Saints, looks you have been willfully mislead
"The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel either has no understanding of campaign finance,
or is willfully misleading her readers. […] In her column, “The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs"
as seems the Kochs are by far the biggest .. are yer cheeks burning. yet?
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Fri Mar 07, 2014 at 01:16 PM PST
by Joan McCarter .. 66 Comments / 0 New
attribution: DonkeyHotey
Caricature of David Koch by DonkeyHotey
This is just a mind-boggling statistic .. http://www.republicreport.org/2014/unions-koch/ : The various Koch-sponsored groups spent
"more than double the combined political spending (including to undisclosed group) for the top 10 unions combined" in 2012.
Here's what that looks like:
attribution: Republic Report
That includes all the "dark money" spending of both unions and the Kochs, money to Super PACs, etc. There's a concerted push now among conservatives to try to say that the Kochs really aren't bankrolling the Republican Party, and look! Unions! Bad!
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The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel either has no understanding of campaign finance, or is willfully misleading her readers. […] In her column, “The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs,” Strassel cites a Center for Responsive Politics list to claim that unions “collectively spent $620,873,623 more than Koch Industries” on political races. Of course, if you actually visit this page on the CPR website, the list runs below a disclaimer noting that it does not include certain Super PAC spending or most undisclosed dark money spending, the preferred route for the Koch brothers for decades.
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I'll go with "willfully misleading" on that one. The reality is, the reported spending by the Kochs in 2012 was dwarfed—almost 100 times—by their unreported spending, $4.9 million in disclosed contributions compared to $407 million in undisclosed money spent.
Of course the best part about all that Koch money spent in 2012 is that they lost.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/07/1282993/-Union-thugs-Wait-til-you-see-the-Kochs?detail=hide
See also:
Koch-backed political network, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95593307
Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94752862
The Koch Brothers Seditious Shutdown Conspiracy Should Get Them 20 Years in Prison
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=92946928
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.. 3Saints, looks you have been willfully mislead
"The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel either has no understanding of campaign finance,
or is willfully misleading her readers. […] In her column, “The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs"
as seems the Kochs are by far the biggest .. are yer cheeks burning. yet?
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Fri Mar 07, 2014 at 01:16 PM PST
by Joan McCarter .. 66 Comments / 0 New
attribution: DonkeyHotey
Caricature of David Koch by DonkeyHotey
This is just a mind-boggling statistic .. http://www.republicreport.org/2014/unions-koch/ : The various Koch-sponsored groups spent
"more than double the combined political spending (including to undisclosed group) for the top 10 unions combined" in 2012.
Here's what that looks like:
attribution: Republic Report
That includes all the "dark money" spending of both unions and the Kochs, money to Super PACs, etc. There's a concerted push now among conservatives to try to say that the Kochs really aren't bankrolling the Republican Party, and look! Unions! Bad!
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The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel either has no understanding of campaign finance, or is willfully misleading her readers. […] In her column, “The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs,” Strassel cites a Center for Responsive Politics list to claim that unions “collectively spent $620,873,623 more than Koch Industries” on political races. Of course, if you actually visit this page on the CPR website, the list runs below a disclaimer noting that it does not include certain Super PAC spending or most undisclosed dark money spending, the preferred route for the Koch brothers for decades.
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I'll go with "willfully misleading" on that one. The reality is, the reported spending by the Kochs in 2012 was dwarfed—almost 100 times—by their unreported spending, $4.9 million in disclosed contributions compared to $407 million in undisclosed money spent.
Of course the best part about all that Koch money spent in 2012 is that they lost.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/07/1282993/-Union-thugs-Wait-til-you-see-the-Kochs?detail=hide
See also:
Koch-backed political network, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95593307
Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94752862
The Koch Brothers Seditious Shutdown Conspiracy Should Get Them 20 Years in Prison
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=92946928
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